Wednesday, 25 April 2012

This week we have WORD ART as our theme at the Three Muses and that, for some reason, had me stumped for a while, until my Muse, who knows me best, reminded me of this little poem by Jenny Joseph. And she is right of course, I do aspire to one day wearing that red hat!

Sunday, 22 April 2012

I found Markus a difficult artist to emulate as he has such a distinct and original style. After a whole afternoon of trying I almost gave up but this Botticelli beauty just wanted to be reborn. I chose a similar colour scheme to what Csaba Markus favours and concentrated on the hair as he often does.

However, this one took on a life of its own and my Muse wanted to give Mary an updated hairstyle and who am I to argue. I 'cut' a square from a texture and used the warp tool to morph it into a modern day bob of hair for one side of her face. Then duplicated, reversed, warped and morphed to create the other side. Much adding of elements, duplicating, layering and blending later she began to look like a modern day beauty and I was fairly happy with the result. I finished with a soft textured filter from Photoshop.

Credit to Finecrafted Designs, Playing with Brushes and Botticelli, of course.

Our word for inspiration this week is NUMBERS and that got me thinking about how sometimes even counting on ONE is a difficult task ...... for a hungry little bird at least! Hang on though ..... perhaps he ate this one up before I looked out of my window. We shall never know! :D

Tuesday, 10 April 2012

I bet when John William Waterhouse painted this beautiful lady he never thought she would swap her gentle boat on the river for a trip on a steampunk airship with all the trimmings. Ahhh, the magic of Photoshop! :D

Our theme across at the Three Muses is STEAMPUNK this week and this is my interpretation.

Sunday, 8 April 2012

This week we are invited to create a SKINNY card for the Take a Word challenge and that reminded me of the other day when I heard music coming from my house as I came up the path with my shopping. It sounded, for all the world, as though there was some jazz jamming going on around my piano. In my mind I saw trumpets and colour, cigarette smoke and happy dancers but ......... alas when I stepped through the door the piano lid was closed and the room was quiet. Mmmmmmm I'll keep taking the tablets!

Friday, 6 April 2012

This week we are looking at the work of John Waterhouse at Digitalmania across at Flickr. Now, in my opinion, Mr W just cannot be bettered so my inspiration was to create a little bit of 'something' using a section of his water nymphs.

Thursday, 5 April 2012

This week, at Digitalmania across at Flickr, Marie challenged us to take inspiration from the work of LK Perrella. I liked her Faces and Folly series and created this by adapting, layering and blending a number of pictures by famous painters to create this Perrella inspired piece. Perhaps you can recognise a bit of Van Gogh, a slice of Klimt and a touch of Botticelli hidden in this piece!